Collar



(No Model.)

P. BEIERMEISTER. Jr.

COLLAR.

Patented June 5, 18-83.

UNITED STATESE PATENT, OF ICE.

FREDRIOK BEIERMEISTER, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,677, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed September 9, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern at the dotted line y in Fig. 3, exaggerated in size.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the. several figures.

My invention consists in fastening or stitching together the outer and inner parts of a combined standing and turn-down collar along the dividing-line between the standing and turndown portions of the collar, and is supplemental to my invention of a collar for which Letters Patent were granted to me June 13, 1882.

The objects of my invention are, first, to secure afirm and uniform condition of the up per or standing part of the collar; and, second, to confine the spring of the parts to the lower or turn-down portion of the collar and keep the parts in their proper relative position while being laundered.

For convenience of description,the two parts of the collar may be styled one the inner part, D, which answers the purposes of a band, and the other the outer part, B, which is the face of the collar. The outer part or face, B, is divided by the line of stitching A through parts B and D into two parts, known as the upper or standing part andthe lower or turndown 7 part. The outer part, B, may be composed of two or more plies or thicknesses of cloth, F G, Fig. 4. These plies are first stitched together along one edge of each ply, and then turned to the position shown in Fig. 4. Oneor more plies, D, are then laid upon one side of part B and one or more plies uponthe other side. The plies are then all stitched together at E, and those on one side-D, for exampleare turned over to the other side-and to the position shown in Fig. 2, the stitching E being also turned over, so as to present on one side .the smooth face B. It is preferable to then stitch all theplies to place, as shown by the line H in Fig. 2. We now have the two parts D and B in position shown in Fig. 2 to be stitched together at A2 The utility of the stitching will be better understood by reference to Fig. 3, wherein the shape of the different parts is shown in perspective, and in that stage of progress represented by the cross-section in Fig. 4. It will be seen that the inner part, D, projects at each end beyond the outer part, B, which is partly represented by dotted lines, and that both parts are of the same shape along their upper edges and part way only across their ends, and that their upper edges are curved. It is evident that the are of a circle formed by these upper curved edges is longer than a corresponding are taken a little below their edges, so that whenthe parts are turned from the position shown in Fig. 4 to the position shown in Fig. 2 the edges forming the longer are are brought down to contact with the partB at a shorter are, at or near the line H, and being already stitched together at their edges, and again at H, two arcs having differ ent radii are connected into one are, which causes the parts to assume a new line of curva ture, and tends to separate their opposite edges and prevent them from lying closely and smoothly together. This feature is well known and understood by those skilled in the art of making collars, and may be called the spring of the collar, the amount of spring varying with the degree of curvature.

As I desire to secure the advantages of a standing collar in the upper portion of my collar, I- wish to have the same firm and compact, and therefore stitch the parts together along the line A, which holds the upper portion of the two parts firmly together and causes them to assume a smooth and uniform condition when laundered. By means of the same line of stitching, A, I also retain the spring of the collar in the lower or turn-down portion, which permits the easy insertion of a necktie thereunder and between the two parts B and D. The stitching A also holds the parts securely in position while being laundered, which gives them a uniform appearance when finished for said parts, above the body-line of stitching, are use. The respective parts may be stitched 'heldfirmly together, andthe lower portions,bearound their edges,as indicated by the dotted low the body-line of stitching, left loose and lines in the drawings. allowed to separatefrom each other, substan- I 5 5 What I claim as new, and desire to secure by tially as described, and for the purposes set Letters Patent, is d forth.

A collar composed of two parts curve and stitched together along the upper edge of each FREDRIOK BEIERMEISTDR? part, and again stitched togetheralong the "Witnesses:

IO body of the parts, between their stitched and GEO. A. MosHER,

loose edges, whereby the upper portions of GEO. F. NIOHOLs. 

